And you thought it was all James Toback's fault. Wrong-o. Back in 1977, someone with more money than brains gave a then eight-year old Brett Ratner a Panasonic camcorder, effectively launching his career (and irreparably harming the cinema as we knew it). We learned this spicy bit of trivia about the frisky fauxter when we tagged along with our geeky brothers at Gizmodo to a Panasonic "presser" at the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas earlier today. Hold your breath, the worst is yet to come.

While we were fruitless in our attempts to discover a gadget at CES capable of producing 1.21 gigawatts of horsepower so we could go back to `77 and erase this pockmark on history, we were able to discover this: B-Ratt is providing creative "guidance" to Panasonic and a small army of average families as they shoot "Living In High Definition: The Movie." We're not quite sure what all of this means, but if Ratner is involved, we will bet you dollars to donuts it will involve an overinflated budget, lengthy delays, Chris Tucker and tranny beejers. If we're lucky, all of the above. We can hardly wait.